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<p>[quote user="Dragoman"]</p> <p>So, it continues -- now the trucking company is sueing UP & Amtrak.</p> <p><a href="http://www.rgj.com/article/20110729/NEWS/110729047/Trucking-company-Amtrak-train-crash-countersues-Amtrak-Union-Pacific?odyssey=mod" title="Trucking company in Amtrak train crash countersues Amtrak, Union Pacific">http://www.rgj.com/article/20110729/NEWS/110729047/Trucking-company-Amtrak-train-crash-countersues-Amtrak-Union-Pacific?odyssey=mod</a></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p> </p> <p><span lang="EN" style="color: #2c2c2c; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hmm,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>what a novel therory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>A quote from the article announcing the basis for this new lawsuit against Amtrak and UP:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Helvetica; color: #2c2c2c; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It [the lawsuit] said Amtrak and Union Pacific breached its duties “by allowing trains to accelerate in the approach to the grade crossing <span style="color: #0000ff;">and in failing to install, program and maintain the grade crossing predictor, associated circuitry and warning device mechanisms so as to provide adequate warning to travelers on Highway 95 of the approach of trains at the crossing,”</span> the suit says.</span></span></span></p> <p><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p> <p><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p> <p><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(My emphasis)</span></span></span></p> <p><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p>
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